Biscoe Bay

Biscoe Bay

Biscoe Bay is a bay which indents the SW coast of Anvers Island immediately N of Biscoe Point, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. First charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897-99, under Adrien de Gerlache, and named by him for John Biscoe, who may have landed there in February 1832.

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